The children have been working so hard in rehearsals with Mrs. Reynolds. They performed brilliantly. The audience were very impressed.
The performance today was an exclusive for the Harewood audience, if you missed it they will be doing a second performance on Sunday for the Harewood Over Sixty Club.
The acting skills on show were very good - we saw a darker side to some of our Harewood pupils! Don't mess with Veruca!
Mike TV came to a sticky end - despite his quick shooting skills.
Mr. Wonka and his Oompa Lumpas welcomed us to his Chocolate Factory. 
Then we designed and created backdrops, some of which had pop up sections to give a more 3D effect......
Next, we designed our characters using modelling plasticine......
We soon realised how patient you need to be to achieve the best results.
Finally we added sound effects, music and visual effects to our animations and watched them all back - we were amazed by the results! Please come to our celebration assembly to see them on the big screen.
As part of our work on cartoons and animation, Mr Madeley led a workshop on cartoon fighting. At the start of the lesson we talked about the rules for staging a fight so we were sure that no-one was going to get hurt.
So this punch might look powerful - but it didn't even tickle! Mr. Madeley showed us how to use timing and reactions to stage a realistic fight scene.
We really enjoyed the workshop, even the warm up was fun. We were asked to do the biggest yawn we could, using our whole bodies. 
By the end of our busy feature week we will all be tired, but nobody will be yawning! 
We had to listen very carefully as the instructions were very detailed. The staff at the CLC said we did really well and concentrated brilliantly.
We took time out in the cafe for a well earned break.
The boys were very interested in the news from Libya that was broadcast on the flatscreen.
Class 4 used the apple macs to create stop animation films. They learnt a wide range of skills including model making, editing and use of the digi blue cameras.
Luckily even this image didn't manage to break the applemac!
KS2 thoroughly enjoyed their day, we even got to play outside in the sunshine at lunchtime. Let's hope we get to visit the CLC again sometime soon!
We each made a clay friend and gave it a name. Jack brought all of his equipment with him, including webcams, tripods and apple mac computers. He showed us how to use the software to create our animated films.
All we had to do was pick a start position and then move it slightly to make it look like it's moving. Each clasy model had a different style of dancing, such as street dance, ballet, pop and freestyle.
Our teamwork skills were very important, we had to work together to produce our films. The short films are amazing. Jack edited our work so that we now have one class film.
Everyone was sad when they had to break the models up, but Jack explained it was all part of the creative process - plus he needed the clay back!
It was lots of fun, I hope we can do it again. As for our film, make sure you are at this week's celebration assembly for the grand premiere!
The paying public waits to see their man get the gunk.
The children cheered on Mr.Madeley as he prepared to empty the bucket of specially prepared gunk. We're not sure he should be smiling quite that much!
A big congratulations to Mr. Sturgess who entered into the spirit of red nose day and kept smiling! 
All our activities in class were linked to the red nose theme. Class 3 made boxes to keep their red noses in after the day is over.
Class 2 iced biscuits complete with red noses, delicious!
Mrs. Reynolds taught Class 2 to dance like Adam and the Ants, they looked very professional. 'Adam who?' asked Byron.
Year 5 arrived back from Cober Hill just in time to watch the video joke reel. It definitely is all in the way you tell them - the pupils who had paid to record their jokes in the joke booth had us all in stitches!
It has been a great day and we expect to raise an impressive final total. Well done everybody!
Solving problems. Making 2 digit numbers with 3 and 4 pieces.
Finding out number facts for 9 and 5 
